A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

fable Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.5 3 0 0 0 10.3 4.4
Number of occurrences86 0 0 0 1 1
Number of authors7 5 1 1

Occurrences of fable in Corpus

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Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
ort wis a reworking o Aesop's fable The Lion and the Moose. This on page 3

1 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 59 - Review Folksongs and Folklore of South Uist, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
tale type. There is an animal fable o the tod an the wolf, a tale on page 62

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 67 - In Search o Robert Henrysoun, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
n tae jalouse a moral in this fable, on page 123

1 matches

Calder, Bob Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
sibility o the situation in a fable, and o the narrator's view, c on page 95

2 matches

Heather, Alistair Trains approachin?, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
e o the twa touns is a uissfu fable for unnerstaundin the importa
1 matches

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
A myth, a legend and a fable on page 42

1 matches

Ulster

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
This fable goat, thou mythic be'n, on page 45

1 matches

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